Renewable energy sources and climate change mitigation
Subtitle: special report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
By: edited by Ottmar Edenhofer, Ramón Pichs Madruga, Youba Sokona [and] Technical Support Unit Working Group III, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
Contributors: United Nations Environment Programme; World Meteorological Organization; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Working Group III; Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1076
ISBN-13: 9781107023406; 9781107607101
Subjects: Climate change mitigation; Environmental aspects; Renewable energy sources
Other titles: SRREN; Working Group III special report on renewable energy sources and climate change mitigation; Special report on renewable energy sources and climate change mitigation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. Renewable energy and climate change; title: Ch. 2. Bioenergy; title: Ch. 3. Direct solar energy; title: Ch. 4. Geothermal energy; title: Ch. 5. Hydropower; title: Ch. 6. Ocean energy; title: Ch. 7. Wind energy; title: Ch. 8. Integration of renewable energy into present and future energy systems; title: Ch. 9. Renewable energy in the context of sustainable development; title: Ch. 10. Mitigation potential and costs; title: Ch. 11. Policy, financing and implementation.